Bonnie Bakhtiari from “B is for Bonnie Design” is on the podcast today chatting about the three most common pricing mistakes that she sees designers make. Even if you're not a designer, these are pricing mistakes that any service-based business needs to be aware of. We're diving into those price mistakes and then we chat about what businesses should do instead. Bonnie is a brand designer and strategist who also educates other brand designers, graphic designers, and web designers on how to create profitable businesses. Be sure to check out the show notes at daveyandkrista.com for the resources that we mentioned during the episode. For show notes visit...https://daveyandkrista.com/btb-episode-137-3-pricing-mistakes-what-you-should-do-instead/

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Episode 137: 3 Pricing Mistakes: What You Should Do Instead

Today’s podcast is about – podcasting. Melissa Guller of Wit and Wire joins me to discuss how to get started with podcasting. We cover a lot in this episode, including why now is the best time to start podcasting, the advantages specific to podcasting, the gear and tools you need to get started, and how to grow your podcast. You’ll probably notice, as I did, that Melissa has taught this stuff before. I really appreciated her insights into podcasting and the way that she clearly explained each of the topics that we cover. I hope that we'll be able to release a Part 2 either later this year or early next year, where we specifically cover podcasting growth strategies. If you're thinking about starting your podcast this year check out our YouTube video that covers everything you should have on a podcasting website. We have a website template that checks all of those boxes and we just released that YouTube video this week. Melissa also has a course that you can check out which will be linked in the show notes. For show notes visit...https://daveyandkrista.com/how-to-create-a-podcast-website/

Episode 136: How to Start a Podcast

In today's episode Krista and I are covering the components of a strong visual brand identity. We're diving into a few things to consider when it comes to client avatars, logo design, fonts, colors and more. If you're getting ready to tackle brand design project, be sure to check out our Anatomy of a Brand Guide—it's a free download and one of our biggest guides yet. We received some stellar feedback about it so check it out! For show notes visit...https://daveyandkrista.com/how-to-create-a-strong-visual-identity/

Episode 135: How to Create a Strong Visual Brand

In today's episode Krista and I cover five website mistakes that we commonly see people make. If you're looking for higher conversion rates on your website you will want to make sure that you're not making one of these mistakes. If you find this episode helpful you might also like our ten common DIY design mistakes episode which covers more design specific mistakes that we see when people customize their own websites. For show notes visit...https://daveyandkrista.com/common-website-conversion-mistakes/

Episode 134: 5 Common Website Mistakes You Might Be Making

Today's episode is a fun one because I get to share a little bit about another business of mine that I haven't shared much about on this podcast while also sharing some behind the scenes of the stack of tools that we're using to make that businesses website work. The business is farm fed box and you can learn more about it at farmfedbox.com. Just for some context for any new listeners we recently moved to Virginia and started farming with good friends of ours, I know that sounds crazy but we're primarily raising cattle, pigs, and chickens using sustainable farming practices but what we're actually reviewing in today's episode is how we set up or subscription box website and specifically what tools were using to make it work behind the scenes. For show notes visit...https://daveyandkrista.com/how-to-launch-subscription-box-website/

Episode 133: How to Create a Subscription Box Website

In today's episode is a bit random but Krista and I thought it would be fun to have a quick casual conversation about 7 fun ideas for your website. Hopefully you find one or two of these ideas interesting and if nothing else it gave us quite a few ideas for future podcast episodes. As Krista mentioned in beginning the episode just because you find idea interesting, cool, or fun doesn't mean that you have to implement it. There is often a lot of wisdom in simplicity and keeping things straight forward especially when it comes to your website. For show notes visit...

Episode 132: 7 Cool Things You Can Do on Your Website

Today's episode is a special crossover episode with my other podcast over at the Till Agency, Stuff Marketers Say. In this episode I chat with one of my co-founders Jesse about the importance of lead generation and the elements of a high converting landing page. Basically it's a lot of the stuff of what we've learned through creating our own landing pages and what we've learned now through running ads for quite a few clients. For show notes visit...https://daveyandkrista.com/audience-5-simpl…ge-that-converts/

Episode 131: 5 Elements of a High Converting Landing Page

Today we're answering the question that we get a lot, is Showit good or bad for SEO? To help us answer that question I'm chatting today with one of Showits UX and website designers Chris Misterek. Chris going to help us understand what SEO is and provide us an overview of the different SEO tools that Showit provides to help us optimize our websites. We also of course discuss a few the limitations that they are actively working on. Also if that name sounds familiar that's because Chris joins us on episode 79 of the Brands that Book podcasts where he discussed how to get started with website design so be sure to give that episode a listen.  For show notes visit... https://daveyandkrista.com/audience-tutorial-how-to-use-the-showit5-seo-settings/

Episode 130: Is Showit bad for SEO?

Episode 129: Showit vs. Elementor

In today's episode Krista and I are chatting through two popular email marketing platforms Convertkit and Flodesk. If you're interested in getting started to email marketing or if you're thinking about switching email marketing platforms you'll want to listen to this discussion.  For show notes visit...https://daveyandkrista.com/convertkit-vs-flodesk/

Episode 128: Convertkit vs. Flodesk

Life coach Joe Malizia joins me on this episode to discuss five powerful questions that you can ask yourself today to move beyond where you're at. Joe specializes in helping people shift their perspectives to open up new possibilities, maximize their full potential, and reach their desired outcomes in their relationships, careers, and lives. I've been excited about recording this episode because Joe's a good friend and I've certainly benefited from having someone like Joe speak into my life. if you're interested in working with Joe be sure to check out his website at joemalizia.com and you can find the link in the show notes. For show notes visit...https://daveyandkrista.com/btb-episode-127-joe-malizia/

Episode 127: 5 Powerful Questions to Ask Yourself Today

Google is rolling out with a major page experience update this coming June. It’s an update that was originally scheduled to be released in March so the delay is good news for those who are just learning about it. In this episode Krista and I discuss what this algorithm update is all about, what you need to know about core web vitals, including optimizations that you can make your Showit or WordPress websites, and we discuss how worried or not worried you should be about what's coming. For show notes visit...https://daveyandkrista.com/btb-episode-core-web-vitals/

Episode 126: Core Web Vitals: What You Need to Know

In this episode Krista and I discuss the purpose of every page on a website. Well not every page but we discuss many pages that one would likely find on a website. In previous episodes we've done deep dives into various pages but today we're taking a high-level view of a website and discussing how looking at your website as a funnel can help you understand each page’s purpose and place in the customer journey. For show notes visit...https://daveyandkrista.com/btb-episode-125/

Episode 125: The Purpose of Every Web Page

Krista is back on the podcast and this week we're chatting about what we've learned over the past few years about building team. Everything from the fears we had before hiring our first team members to why we decided to primarily hire employees instead of contractors and some tips that we have for the hiring process. We hope that you find these reflections helpful especially if you're considering starting to grow a team yourself. For show notes visit...https://daveyandkrista.com/btb-episode-124-reflections-on-building-a-team/

Episode 124: Reflections on Building a Team

This week's guest is this Creative at Heart founder and integrator Kat Schmoyer. Kat joins me on the podcast to discuss what an integrator is and the impact that hiring one can have on a business. We also discuss what sort of tasks an integrator focuses on, what you can learn from an integrator even if you aren't one, and when you might be ready to hire one. For show notes visit...https://daveyandkrista.com/btb-123-kat-schmoyer/

Episode 123: Impact of an Integrator

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